Car-door fastener.



UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN PRIES AND JOHN W. MEYER, OF MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA.

CAR-DOOR FASTENER.`

SPECIFICATION formingrjpart Of Letters Patent N O. 660,656, datedOctober 30, 1900.

Application iled July 20, 1899. Serial No. 724,460. (No model.)

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Beit known that we, HERMAN PRIES and JOHN W. I\IEYER,citizens of theUnited States, and resident-s of Michigan City, county of La Porte, andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOar- Door Fasteners, of which the following is a specification and whichare illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof. l

This invention relates particularly to that class ol car-door fastenersadapted to be secured by means of a seal which will prevent the openingof the door without detection. Its object is to provide means forpreventing the removal without breakingthe seal of that part of thelockingI device which is secured to the car-body and with which themember secured to the door engages. This object is accomplished in theconstruction hereinafter fully described, and which is illustrated inthe accompanying' drawings, in which- Figure l is a detail plan sectionof4 a car body and door, showing a plan View of the door-fastener. Fig.2 is a detail side elevation of a car-body, showing full elevation ofthe fastener; and Fig. 3 is a detail section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

IVe show at A a portion of the side of a car, at a a part of thedoor-frame, and at B a portion of the door.

The fastening comprises a hasp O in hook` outwardly, as shown at e',forming a guide for receiving the edge of the door and forcing itinwardlyagainst the side of the car. The vertical fiangef' is providedwith a horizontal aperture G, and the tongue c is provided with Valateral aperture H, which when the tongue is within the socket of theliangefis in alinement with the aperture G, so that the strap of theseal (not shown) may be passed through both of these apertures, tyingthe members c and f' together, thereby eectually preventing themanipulation of the strap of the seal to permit the withdrawal of thehasptongue. The wing F is provided with an up` Ward extension K, whichforms a wear-plate for the body of the hasp. The staple D may be of anydesired form. We show it as having one of its arms attached to a plated, through which abolt may be passed, as shown, its other arm entering ashort distance into the wood.

While we have shown the tixed member of the door-fastening as having itssocketed portion projecting above its body portion, it is obvious thatit may be variously designed without departing from the scope of theinvention.

We claim as our invention- In a car-door fastening, in combination, ahasp in hook form adapted to be attached to the door and having its hooktransversely apertured, a plate adapted to be attached Ato thedoor-frame, and having an upwardly-projecting wing having a horizontaland a perpendicular transversely'- apertured iiange, such wing having abolt-hole above its horizontal ange, whereby it may be secured to thecar-body by a bolt covered by the hook of the hasp when the door isfastened.

HERMAN PRIES. JOHN W. MEYER. Witnesses:

SAMUEL J. TAYLOR, WALTER J. OGDEN.

